(All that said, there is a very clear trend of Byzantine and Islamic armories influencing each other, and both being influenced by Turkic tribes in the era of weaponry, though again the weapons the...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It doesnt help that you keep shooting yourself in the foot with arguments that seem to pull everything eastward; like with armor design you state that Byzantine armor becomes i...
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Amazons!posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
I know it's not the intended topic, but I would be very down for some Dahomey Amazons š
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Any news on the Thureophoroi front?posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@JTam They have been there for a long, long time though :(
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The Trojan War / Iliad / Odysseyposted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@JTam Those Sea Peoples are exceptional, but they sure could use some Sherden allies... (wink wink, nudge nudge WGA ;)
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
The point that is being made pretty much over and over again is they are a hodge podge of different things, mostly western and in common with the back ground lore inspirations and influences that g...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
I would hope that too, but personally, I'll just be happy if by some miracle they and thureophoroi will come out early next year. I feel like this year got a big push of renaissance in the form of...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It's just that I find your claims unrealistic; there's a pretty clear design evolution not only of how GW's elves look, but of the place they occupy in the lore, which is as ea...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
Where or when did I say that the Osprey books were the end all be all of armor research? You're putting words in my mouth, and I don't appreciate it. What I did was assume that Osprey books about ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I think you fail to appreciate how universal most elements of armor actually are, and how rare it is for any particular element to be associated with a single culture. -But- what we can say (or at ...
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Sets you are looking forward toposted in General Chatter
@Caratacus [Inregards to Victrix models] There is some variation over the years, with victrix undergoing it's own slight 'scale creep' with more recent models seemingly being pumpkin heads. I'm try...
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Future Kitbash: Hittite Armored Spearmenposted in General Chatter
I like the idea of it! There may be a need to swap out legs though.
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Sets you are looking forward toposted in General Chatter
My usages are mostly for 'low fantasy' skirmish and RPG's in Hyborian style settings - so that skiews the kits I'm looking forward to the most, lol. 1) Thureophoroi - they seem like they are gonan...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Mark Dewis The late Roman armies would have been a grab bag of absolutely everything and everyone in the Empire, and the the three tired system in use you've have troop pools of local garrisons, m...
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Any news on the Thureophoroi front?posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@James Cutts I too am HUGELY looking forward to the thureophoroi- just as much as the late legionaries actually. I'm hoping that early 2023 both of them might get released - the few previews for bo...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Big Boi I like having height differences (within reason) in my models, but also think some of the height stuff tends to be a tad over stated for various reasons.
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I see your comparisons, but I'm just not seeing the relationship that you do. That high elf is pretty clear based off a mix of European Armor designs, from a Norman cone atop a Corinthian helmet, a...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
Fair enough! I didnt think they were that old!
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It's worth pointing out that most of the design paradigm for High Elves came long before modern scolarship and Osprey books would begin to make knowledge of what Turkic warrior...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker From experience, many wargamers on a whole tend to lean towards more conservative ideas in so far as desire for products go. I think there is a certain degree of 'people don't ...
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Here is a poll on Elves read the intro firstposted in Classic Fantasy
I chose East Asian mostly because the modern concept of "the Elf" seems far more Japanese than it does Northern European. IE; a long lived race of wise practitioners of arts mundane, martial, and ...
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General excitement for squamata (scale armor) legionariesposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
Victrix beat WGA to the punch for unarmored late Romans, though that probably wont stop me getting a kit (or at least a few sprues) for WGA unarmored guys - I'm hopeful that WGA will feel the burn ...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
I would certainly agree that WGA could make better 'generic' fantasy than what fireforge or oathmark offer. And with shields now being on different sprues, there could well be armament options in g...
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Late Roman Unarmored Infantry WGA Blog Articleposted in Decline and Fall: Imperial Rome at War 284-476 AD
@Mark Dewis I think this is pretty close to the truth, and I think it prevents even other, newer British mini companies getting deals with them. I won't say which one -or if they are still around o...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker I don't think your ever going to get away from plastic soldiers basically always being x-period warrior with a diffetne helmet. Even your examples boil down to a west europeans...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Caratacus Using Byzantines as proxies is actually getting away from the point I was making, which was about making something more generic based on the top picture of the infantry. I agree that th...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
As i said above -I'm very well aware of what the options out there are, and I stand by my argument. The options for basically anything realistic fantasy that isnt a GoT Stark stand-in are pretty fe...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
If you want North Men, yes! If you want anything else, not so much. ;)
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker Well... No. I fully disagree with your entire sentiment, and I think you're being rather rude. There are already good plastic options for Byzantines, Imperial Romans, and inc...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
To me at least, they look good for general fantasy purposes as any kind of "Great Southern (Mediterranean) Empire" type thing. Like i could imagine those guys, though perhaps with different helms ...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Caratacus I feel like there is good design space to offer "light/medium" (except not really) infantry in the style of the Jackson trilogy Numenoreans, and "heavy" infantry in the style of the Amaz...
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Is the time right for 'Not-Numenoreans"?posted in Classic Fantasy
It might be worth pouncing on making some 'Not-Numenoreans' depending on how people feel about Amazons LoTR show by the end of it's season. So far I've seen mixed opinions about the quality of the ...
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An argument for Ancient Chinese female warrior modelsā¦.posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
Again, IDK. Like I wouldn't mind any of the periods that interest you getting made, but my *own* preferance is probably always going to be Shang for the reasons I've mentioned above. It's okay for...
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Carsten Ohlsson Dinotopia - now that's what I'm talking about!
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An argument for Ancient Chinese female warrior modelsā¦.posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@Brian Van De Walker It's a question of opinion, obviously - but I'm lucky enough to have seen some Shang era bronze artifacts in person, and they are amazing. I'm aware of history -both real and m...
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Brian Van De Walker It's worth remembering that hard plastic dinos are certain to attract the eyes of some warhammer lizarmen (seraphon) players. I somewhat resemble that category of person myself ;)
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Mark Dewis For me the Schleich stuff is among the worst - it's way too tall and out of proportion for a rex, and that's even with the 'Jurassic Park' filter on. The one Schleic model I might go f...
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
@Mark Dewis I think we're just going to be of two different minds on this. For me at least, I'd like to have dinosaurs that scale well witht e fossile records in terms of largest size, as most dino...
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
On a related note, I realized I probably want just as much -if not- plastic whooly Rhinos. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to make a fantasy ice age civlization of whooly rhino cavalry.
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
@JTam While there are dino toys out there, very, very few of them are ate a good scale compared to 28mm figure. And I get it - most people seem to be okay with 'good enough', or they just want the ...
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Would you want 'generic' 28mm dinosaurs?posted in Classic Fantasy
The idea that there are raptor riders on the way had me thinking of saurian possibilities lately, particularly that there are no good ranges for clearly 25/28mm scaled dinosaurs out there. I recko...
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A few kitbashes and conversionsposted in Painting & Modeling
I've done similar things in the past, but I saw a video on youtube that highlighted that minis with integral bases and/or 'slot bases' are an opportunity, since it allows you to use your basing mat...
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A few kitbashes and conversionsposted in Painting & Modeling
@Blutze Thank you! There's still alot of clean up and smoothing to do before they are nice and finished, but hopefully they are going to look good by the end. Now as for the basing, the magic ingr...
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I wish this forum had a spell checkposted in General Chatter
It would be very, very helpful to me - someone who tends to type too fast, and has a nasty habit of never editing unless I see a red zig-zag some where. Unless its a feature that's already availib...
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An argument for Ancient Chinese female warrior modelsā¦.posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@Brian Van De Walker I totally understand and agree with a lot of your arguments. But I also just kind of thing that the Shang would be cooler lol - just from the bronze cruirass in the pictured ex...
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An argument for Ancient Chinese female warrior modelsā¦.posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@Grumpy Gnome Definately I live and work in Taiwan, and have started doing an RPG summer camp using miniatures after dipping my toes in during the previous school year. Using Frostgrave kits is ne...
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An argument for Ancient Chinese female warrior modelsā¦.posted in First Empires: From the Rise of Akkadia to the Fall of Alexander
@Brian Van De Walker On the flipside, a good argument in favor of shang warrior women is that: A) Nobody makes them B) They would be great for Hyborian Fantasy (and similar settings) C) Pe...
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A few kitbashes and conversionsposted in Painting & Modeling
So in a different thread there was a bit of a discussion on the uses of GW figures -in particular some of the Idoneth women- as conversion fodder. I've decided to show off one of the conversions I'...
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Goblin Samuraiposted in Classic Fantasy
*And that's to say nothing of if you want lady figures more suited to warmer environs than the frozen city!
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Goblin Samuraiposted in Classic Fantasy
@Mark Dewis In terms of sheer amounf of dedicated parts, yes - but for me the quality of the female soldiers kit is somewhat lacking, and the models need alot of TLC to get them looking good. the F...
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